Gaurav Ruhela

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Data Mining and Information Retrieval.
  • Led teams to scale high-demand systems successfully.
  • Significant contributions to early-stage startups.
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Skills

Core Skills

Data MiningInformation Retrieval

Other Skills

AerospikeAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsBig DataCherryPyData StructuresDistributed SystemsEarly-stage StartupsEjabberdElasticSearchGitHadoopHiveJavaMapReduce

About

Graduate in Computer Science with significant research and development experience in the application of mining and information retrieval (IR) techniques to uncover and extract the latent information present in the World Wide Web data. Specialties: Data Mining, Text Mining and Web Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Extraction

Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Development Manager

Jul 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • OpenSearch

Visa

Director

Jul 2018Jul 2021 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Open Visanet: Next generation network (payment) processing system with distributed systems

Paytm

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2016Jul 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Hotels
  • Designed of services like Caching Layer, Dynamic Promotions
  • Designing a service for dynamic pricing of rooms
  • Leading a team of ~25 engineers
  • Catalog Management System, Paytm Mall
  • Scaled system to support 400K requests per minute and more during sale time
  • Improved SLA of product ingestion pipeline by 40% thus improving product discovery time
  • Directly Managed team of ~20 engineers and setting their technology roadmap
  • In depth design of several new services to cater business requirements
  • Offline to Online Ecosystem (GiftCards, Events, Movies)

Plabro networks pvt ltd

Member of Technical Staff

Sep 2015Jul 2016 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Plabro (Platform for Brokers) was a networking platform for real estate agents.
  • Got to develop and contribute a lot in this early stage startup.
  • User Profile Generation - Behavioural Targeting Framework
  • InHouse wallet (money) implementation
  • MultiLayer Caching Framework with local and over the network caches
  • User Notification Framework
  • Scalable Infrastructure with asynchronus task queues using kafka
  • Design and development of APIs for web and mobile app
  • Chat platform based on ejabberd
  • DevOps - Elastic Search, MongoDB, Redis, Mysql, Kafka, Supervisor, InfraBackup and upload on S3
  • Platform Monitoring - Icinga
  • On the fly web features - python, django

Vdopia inc.

Sr. Research Engineer

Sep 2013Sep 2015 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, India

  • Programmatic Buying platform
  • User Profile Store and User Targeting based on profiles.
  • Distributed Hash Table using Redis, TwemProxy.
  • Asynchronous modules for Aerospike, FluentD in Java
  • Pacing Algorithm: Automatically adjusts number of impressions to be served for a campaign, taking care or over/under delivery and meeting targets.
  • Framework for ad serving. Supports real time bidding and managed services.
  • Ad Targeting.
  • Real time Stats collection.

Rediff.com

Product Engineer

Feb 2010Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Involved in the data-mining and engineering behind Rediff's Search platforms.
  • AutoSuggest Systems - News, Money, Shopping, Book verticals
  • Recommendation Systems
  • Automation Framework
  • Related Query System
  • Trending Entity Detection
  • Tag Generation System for Products (SEO Purpose)
  • Big Data Processing, MapReduce streaming.

Iiit hyderabad

3 roles

Teaching Assistant -- Web Data and Knowledge Management

Nov 2008Mar 2009 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Research Assistant and Software Developer at eSagu

Aug 2006Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • I was involved in eSagu project (Project funded by Media Lab Asia) for quite a substantial duration. During my stay eSagu project won several awards, which includes:
  • Finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008 in the economic development category.
  • Winner of "The Manthan Award 2007 - India's Best e-Content for Development".
  • Best CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Project Award (overall winner) 2006.
  • As a team lead, guided several research assistants associated with the project.
  • Designing and Implementing Automatic Advice Delivery System for eSagu.
  • Designing database schema for new applications.

Research Scholar

Apr 2006Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked on various research projects which helped in my thesis on "Improving Text Document Clustering by Exploiting Open Web Directories"
  • Published several research papers in this duration.

Education

IIIT Hyderabad

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

MS by Research — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2010

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

B.Tech (Hons) — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

Ravindra Public School

High School — Science

Jan 1996Jan 2003

IIIT Hyderabad

IIIT Hyderabad

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